Method and apparatus for insertion of advertisements between viewings of recorded content, games and other media types

1. A method comprising:

displaying live television content received on a first broadcast channel;

displaying a program menu of a digital video recorder (DVR) showing available digitally-recorded programs in response to a user command, the DVR program menu further including a picture-in-graphic (PIG) window showing a reduced-size version of the live television content on the first broadcast channel;

allowing a user to select one of the digitally-recorded programs;

presenting at least a portion of the selected digitally-recorded program; and in response to termination of presenting the selected digitally-recorded program:

redisplaying the DVR program menu; and

automatically tuning the PIG window to a second broadcast channel that is different than the first broadcast channel, wherein the second broadcast channel is automatically selected by the DVR based on the digitally-recorded program selected by the user from the DVR program menu.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second broadcast channel corresponds to a broadcast channel from which the selected digitally-recorded program was recorded.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein each channel is associated with a respective broadcast network, and wherein the second channel is associated with the same broadcast network as a channel from which the selected digitally-recorded program was recorded.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the second channel is a barker channel for the broadcast network.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein each channel is associated with a respective broadcast network, and wherein the second channel is associated with a competitor of the broadcast network of a channel from which the selected digitally-recorded program was recorded.

6. A method comprising:

displaying live television content received on a first broadcast channel;

recording a plurality of digitally-recorded programs;

storing for each of the plurality of digitally-recorded programs a broadcast channel from which each digitally-recorded program is recorded;

displaying a program menu of a digital video recorder (DVR) showing the plurality of digitally-recorded programs in response to a user command, the DVR program menu further including a picture-in-graphic (PIG) window showing a reduced-size version of the live television content on the first broadcast channel;

allowing a user to select one of the digitally-recorded programs;

presenting at least a portion of the selected digitally-recorded program; and

in response to termination of presenting the selected digitally-recorded program:

redisplaying the DVR program menu; and

retrieving the stored broadcast channel from which the selected digitally-recorded program was recorded;

automatically tuning the PIG window to the broadcast channel from which the selected digitally-recorded program was recorded.